{"id":471,"date":"2017-02-28T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/?p=471"},"modified":"2017-04-14T09:04:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T08:04:20","slug":"older-women-rock-official-launch-february-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/02\/28\/older-women-rock-official-launch-february-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Older Women Rock Official Launch &#8211; February 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February\u00a0 17th saw the official launch of the Older Women Rock! Poetry and Fashion Shop in the Space Gallery,\u00a0High Street, Folkestone, \u00a0which will run through until 12th March.\u00a0 The purpose of the Old Women Rock is to raise awareness and explore issues facing women in their late 50&#8217;s ands 60&#8217;s.\u00a0 The pop-up shop features an exhibition of retro clothes embroidered, printed, burned and beaded with poetry that explores issues being faced by older women.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/04\/14\/great-british-tidy-up-march-2017\/owr17-nikki\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-446\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-446\" src=\"\/folkestone\/files\/2017\/04\/OWR17-Nikki-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"OWR17 Nikki\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2017\/04\/OWR17-Nikki-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2017\/04\/OWR17-Nikki.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have been working with Poet Leah Thorne on obtaining funding for Old Women Rock! as well as taking part in some of the events including the flashmob.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/04\/14\/great-british-tidy-up-march-2017\/owr17-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-443\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-443 alignright\" src=\"\/folkestone\/files\/2017\/04\/OWR17-1-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"OWR17 1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2017\/04\/OWR17-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2017\/04\/OWR17-1.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/04\/14\/great-british-tidy-up-march-2017\/owr17-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-444\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-444 alignleft\" src=\"\/folkestone\/files\/2017\/04\/OWR17-2-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"OWR17 2\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2017\/04\/OWR17-2-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2017\/04\/OWR17-2.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the launch event, two of\u00a0our members Nicky and Olivia\u00a0 spoke about Soroptimists International in general and our club and the work we do, which was great publicity for us.\u00a0 The feedback were received from their presentation was a credit to them both.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_442\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-442\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/04\/14\/great-british-tidy-up-march-2017\/owr-17-olivia\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-442\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-442\" src=\"\/folkestone\/files\/2017\/04\/OWR-17-Olivia-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Olivia at the Older Women Rock opening event\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2017\/04\/OWR-17-Olivia-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2017\/04\/OWR-17-Olivia.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia at the Older Women Rock opening event<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February\u00a0 17th saw the official launch of the Older Women Rock! Poetry and Fashion Shop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,33,32,31,53,22],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","tag-folkestone","tag-folkestone-flash-mob","tag-folkestone-poet","tag-older-women-rock","tag-soro","tag-soroptimisters-folkestone"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Older Women Rock Official Launch - February 2017 | News | Blog | Events | SI Folkestone<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Folkestone : Blog &amp; News : Older Women Rock Official Launch - February 2017 : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Folkestone . Read more about Older Women Rock Official Launch - February 2017 .\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/02\/28\/older-women-rock-official-launch-february-2017\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Older Women Rock Official Launch - February 2017 | News | Blog | Events | SI Folkestone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SI Folkestone : Blog &amp; News : Older Women Rock Official Launch - February 2017 : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Folkestone . Read more about Older Women Rock Official Launch - February 2017 .\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/02\/28\/older-women-rock-official-launch-february-2017\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SI Folkestone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-02-28T08:31:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-04-14T08:04:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2017\/04\/OWR17-3.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"jacalynwood\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"jacalynwood\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/02\/28\/older-women-rock-official-launch-february-2017\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/02\/28\/older-women-rock-official-launch-february-2017\/\",\"name\":\"Older Women Rock Official Launch - February 2017 | News | Blog | Events | SI Folkestone\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/02\/28\/older-women-rock-official-launch-february-2017\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/02\/28\/older-women-rock-official-launch-february-2017\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2017\/04\/OWR17-3.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-02-28T08:31:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-04-14T08:04:20+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/#\/schema\/person\/a809cbd7cf9659570aece880b4a53b21\"},\"description\":\"SI Folkestone : Blog & News : Older Women Rock Official Launch - February 2017 : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Folkestone . Read more about Older Women Rock Official Launch - February 2017 .\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/02\/28\/older-women-rock-official-launch-february-2017\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/02\/28\/older-women-rock-official-launch-february-2017\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/02\/28\/older-women-rock-official-launch-february-2017\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2017\/04\/OWR17-3.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2017\/04\/OWR17-3.jpeg\",\"width\":480,\"height\":640,\"caption\":\"Display from the Old Women Rock Event\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/02\/28\/older-women-rock-official-launch-february-2017\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Older Women Rock Official Launch &#8211; February 2017\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/\",\"name\":\"SI Folkestone\",\"description\":\"A Soroptimist International of Great Britain and Ireland Club website\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/#\/schema\/person\/a809cbd7cf9659570aece880b4a53b21\",\"name\":\"jacalynwood\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6626fb87887a2cfd9f6c9575081fdc51bbac3518a761399d8dcaaf260358d951?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6626fb87887a2cfd9f6c9575081fdc51bbac3518a761399d8dcaaf260358d951?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"jacalynwood\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/author\/jacalynwood\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Older Women Rock Official Launch - February 2017 | News | Blog | Events | SI Folkestone","description":"SI Folkestone : Blog & News : Older Women Rock Official Launch - February 2017 : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Folkestone . Read more about Older Women Rock Official Launch - February 2017 .","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/02\/28\/older-women-rock-official-launch-february-2017\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Older Women Rock Official Launch - February 2017 | News | Blog | Events | SI Folkestone","og_description":"SI Folkestone : Blog & News : Older Women Rock Official Launch - February 2017 : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Folkestone . Read more about Older Women Rock Official Launch - February 2017 .","og_url":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/02\/28\/older-women-rock-official-launch-february-2017\/","og_site_name":"SI Folkestone","article_published_time":"2017-02-28T08:31:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-04-14T08:04:20+00:00","og_image":[{"width":480,"height":640,"url":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2017\/04\/OWR17-3.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"jacalynwood","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"jacalynwood","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/02\/28\/older-women-rock-official-launch-february-2017\/","url":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/02\/28\/older-women-rock-official-launch-february-2017\/","name":"Older Women Rock Official Launch - February 2017 | News | Blog | Events | SI Folkestone","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/02\/28\/older-women-rock-official-launch-february-2017\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/02\/28\/older-women-rock-official-launch-february-2017\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2017\/04\/OWR17-3.jpeg","datePublished":"2017-02-28T08:31:00+00:00","dateModified":"2017-04-14T08:04:20+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/#\/schema\/person\/a809cbd7cf9659570aece880b4a53b21"},"description":"SI Folkestone : Blog & News : Older Women Rock Official Launch - February 2017 : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Folkestone . Read more about Older Women Rock Official Launch - February 2017 .","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/02\/28\/older-women-rock-official-launch-february-2017\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/02\/28\/older-women-rock-official-launch-february-2017\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/02\/28\/older-women-rock-official-launch-february-2017\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2017\/04\/OWR17-3.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/files\/2017\/04\/OWR17-3.jpeg","width":480,"height":640,"caption":"Display from the Old Women Rock Event"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/2017\/02\/28\/older-women-rock-official-launch-february-2017\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Older Women Rock Official Launch &#8211; February 2017"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/#website","url":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/","name":"SI Folkestone","description":"A Soroptimist International of Great Britain and Ireland Club website","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/#\/schema\/person\/a809cbd7cf9659570aece880b4a53b21","name":"jacalynwood","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6626fb87887a2cfd9f6c9575081fdc51bbac3518a761399d8dcaaf260358d951?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6626fb87887a2cfd9f6c9575081fdc51bbac3518a761399d8dcaaf260358d951?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"jacalynwood"},"url":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/author\/jacalynwood\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/folkestone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}